Apple did not lower Worldwide Ladies’s Day from its calendar

This week, a viral Instagram publish said that Apple lower Worldwide Ladies’s Day (March 8) from its calendar — however that is not fairly proper.

Bellesa, a intercourse toy model, posted on March 4, “Apple quietly eliminated Worldwide Ladies’s Day from the calendar. That is bizarre.” The carousel publish goes on to clarify how one can add it to their very own Apple Calendar. Worldwide Ladies’s Day was first noticed in 1911, in keeping with the IWD web site, and is now run by numerous teams internationally. It is nestled in Ladies’s Historical past Month, and is a day to rejoice girls’s achievements and advocate for his or her rights.

This publish, which has over 41,000 likes as of publication, got here after Google Calendar eliminated Black Historical past Month, Pleasure Month, and extra holidays round three weeks in the past. The tech large said it was as a result of a transfer to solely embody public holidays and nationwide observances, however the removals prompted public outrage, as their timing aligns with the anti-diversity push fueled by Donald Trump’s second presidential time period.

Since coming again into workplace in January, Trump has overseen the removing of LGBTQ White Home pages and language about queer and trans folks on different authorities web sites, as a part of an general campaign to finish Range, Fairness, and Inclusion (DEI) packages. Tech firms have began to adjust to this, corresponding to Meta and Google eradicating its DEI packages. (Apple shareholders not too long ago voted to maintain its DEI insurance policies.)

Given the anti-DEI push, commenters simply believed that Apple made this transfer. However in keeping with Politifact, this is not the case as a result of Apple apparently by no means had Worldwide Ladies’s Day on its calendar within the first place. Apple advised Politifact that neither Worldwide Ladies’s Day nor Ladies’s Historical past Month have been ever featured on Apple Calendar.

Mashable has reached out to each Apple and Bellesa, and can replace this story if we hear again.